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Lesson
Additional lesson provided by IRM during interdepartmental comments: Cluster TAs such as SIAP have long approval processes due to the need to obtain separate approvals from the Steering Committee as well as ADB management.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Lesson
Additional lesson provided by IRM during interdepartmental comments: Providing TA support when projects are not in the Blue Book5 and counterparts have not issued commitment letters presents a unique risk that future TA interventions should mitigate.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Lesson
Additional lesson: Meaningful outcome indicators are consistently, plausibly, and directly linked to desired outcomes.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Lesson
Ensuring that design of the TA aligns with the ADB’s strategic regional efforts is important in helping to contribute to longer-term sustainable results. The DMFs could cross-reference these areas of alignment.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
The TCR identified two findings, not lessons: first, engagement with strategic national partners was beneficial, and second, flexibility in output 2’s design enabled the TA to respond to national stakeholder priorities during implementation through consultative workshops with national stakeholders

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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In finalizing this validation report, SAOD elaborated on an open and flexible design in project implementation. It is a suitable solution to accommodating DMCs’ requests for climate change–related capacity building activities in line with project objectives.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
This validation recognizes the importance of assessing a project’s technical feasibility during the TA’s preparation stage.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Lesson
Training indicators are more accurate and representative if they are based on demonstrated proficiency, and not just participation, since mere attendance does not prove capacity development.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Lesson
Inaccurate estimations: KEGOC underestimated the data required, and DIgSILENT overestimated availability of data.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Lesson
Gender targets for training are based on actual data on the organization’s employee composition and should aim to increase participation of underrepresented groups. To increase the value of the training activities, gender targets can be designed such that the (i) organization’s current employee composition and (ii) steps to increase the exposure, awareness, and participation of underrepresented groups are taken into account, while ensuring the delivery of the training program to the appropriate people who are currently performing the critical tasks.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Holding organized workshops with key staff (technical and managerial staff and other staff that would interact with the system) to identify the key features required for a successful transition to a new transmission planning system (or other major software or system change) and review and evaluate the different alternatives will help create buy-in and also result in a quality decision, factoring in the contributions of different team members. The software system chosen through this kind of process will be respected and will have a high likelihood of successful implementation and uptake.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Consultation in the design phase is critical to develop a clear understanding of requirements and allow any issues to be flagged upfront and factored into the design of the project in terms of scope, cost estimates, schedule and allocation of human resources. Some specific areas to ensure coverage in the design process of a similar project are: • The extent of data requirements • Data availability • Data accessibility, and whether language translation will be required.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Lesson
The TA had some design shortcomings related to insufficient information availability. During project preparation, the extent of the work and the inputs and resource requirements of each participant should have been clearly communicated.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Lesson
The TCR could have provided possible design alternatives in such projects where frequent change in the government remain. Also, the TCR could have studied the priorities of the old and new governments that resulted in the cancellation of the ensuing project.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Lesson
Procedural requirements such as Steering Committee endorsements and counterpart no_x005F_x0002_objections, can trigger delays and should, therefore, be carefully considered when designing a realistic timeframe for TA implementation.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
Report Date: